The Kaunitz Sisters (Leopoldine, Caroline, and Ferdinandine)
Medium
Graphite on laid paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 7/8 × 8 3/4 in. (30.2 × 22.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, in honor of Philippe de Montebello, 1998
Accession Number
1998.21
Tags
About the Artist
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres|Prince Wenzel von Kaunitz-Rietberg · 1780–1867
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was born on 29 August 1780 in Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne region of southern France, into a family with deep artistic and musical connections — his father was a painter, sculptor, and musician. He showed exceptional promise from childhood, enrolling at the Académie Royale in Toulouse where he studied under the sculptor Jean-Pierre Vigan, the landscape painter Je...